I am traveling to Germany next month and am concerned about the possibility of losing stored images on my CompactFlash Card when going through airport security (x-ray machines, magnetic detection devices, etc). Will I return with a card full of images or a blank?

-- William J. Daugherty (wjdaugherty@worldnet.att.net), August 08, 2000

Answers

I have gone thru a number of African, Asian and European airports (and U.S., of course) with no problem! I'm told the flash cards are NOT magnetic media anyway.

-- Ted (ted.krohn@fra.dot.gov), August 08, 2000.

my cards are scanned in airport machines twice each week, and i have never had any problems. however, if you do lose data for some reason, like your computer decides to eat bits for lunch, send email to me. i have written an application to recover lost images from cards. remember, if you want a good recovery rate, then don't write to the card in any way after you have the problem.

-- Andrew J. Toth (atoth@patientkeeper.com), July 08, 2001.